Monday - NO SCHOOL
Tuesday - NO SCHOOL
Wednesday
- Reveiwed the 1920s to refresh memory
- Womens Rights and Freedoms
- Women picked up mens jobs when they left for WW1
- When men came back women were upset because they had to go back to homestyle working
- Flapper Girls (Energetic Freedom) (Young, carefree women) (Bars=famous place for them)
- 1920 Election
- 11/6/28
- Hoover beat Smith
- Hover won 444 electoral votes (58.2% popular vote)
- Smith 87 electoral votes
-Trickle Down Theory (Specific Targeted Tax Cuts)
- Give taxt cuts to the Rich (Trickles down) (Gives better job opportunities)
- Isolation (The combination of the Great Depression and the losses of WW1) (Isolated from European Issues)
- Return to Normalcy (Going back to focusing on America) (America Boomed)
Thursday-
- Red Scare
- Fear of Communism
- 150,000 Anarchists or Communists
- Strikes in 1919
- Government ownership of the production of goods and services and taking money from the wealthy and giving it to the poor
- 1919 to 1920
- Spread of communism in other countries
- Soviet Union was a world Superpower
- Afraid that US citizens were sharing information
- House Committee on Un-American Activities
- Emergency Immigration Act 1921
- First raid at headquaters of the Union of Russian Workers
- Second Raid
- Third Palmer Raids
Socco VanZetti Case
- Fred Parmenter and Allessandro Berardelli
- Mike Boda
Boda's Colleagues
- Further forensics
- Michael Dukakis
Scopes - Monkey Trail
- What was the long lasting Impact?
- What was the ruling?
- John Thomas Scopes
- Teaching Evolution in Violation
- Lawyers (William Jennings Bryan & Clarence Derow)
- First day setback
- Carnival outside the courthouse
- Closing Speech
- Guilty
- After the trail, he was offered the same position, but chose to leave
- Effects on relegion
- Effects on society
- Effects on education
Harlem Renaissance
-What Impact?
-People?
-Blacks?
- Harlem (Neighborhood in New York City)
- Black families started taking over the Harlem neighborhood in the City of New York
- Landlords needed building full, but nobdy was able to take them
- Artistic Explosion of African American Culture
- Black were getting recognixed for something good for the firt time
- Aaron Douglas
- Most prominent artist illustrator
-Iconic for is mural paition around New York City
- Do Bois
- American Sociologist, Historian, Civil Rights Activist, Author, Writer
KKK
- White only group that terroized blacks and other who followed them
- Wanted to rid the country of others who weren't apart of the KKK (Mainly Blacks)
- KKK were at their highest point in the 1920s
- They weren't happy about the Harlem Renaissance
- Lynching (Kill someone by hanging for an alleged offense with or without legal trial)
Friday - Gone (Copied Chloe's Notes)
Strikes
Steel Mill Strike
September 22, 1919- January 8,1920
Took Place within the US Steel Corp
Wants of Workers
Higher Wages
Less Work Hours
Union Recognition
Outcome
300,000 people quit their jobs
Workers were beaten
Reduced to 8 hour work days
Union was still not full recognized
Boston Police Strike
September 9, 1919
Took Place on streets of Boston
1,100 workers (3/4 of Police)
Wants of Workers
High Wages
Raises in Salaries
Outcome
People is Boston used this as a reason to riot
Policeman that strikes could to return to jobs
New officers were granted high pay and holidays
Given free uniforms
United Mine Workers Strike
April 1919- Potter Coal and Coke Company would not recognize the mine workers
Strikes ended in Mid December
Wants of Workers
Higher Wages
Shorter work days
Outcome
Some strikers were docked on payday for participating
Schools were closed due to lack of heat
Strikes were declared unlawful
Wilson proposed an immediate wage increase
14%
Miners returned to work
Electricity
Began in 20’s
Positively affected homes
1920- 35% of houses had electricity
1929- 68% of houses had electricity
Boosted many industries
Urban Electricity
Most urban homes had electricity by the end of 20’s
People could get more things done
Movies became very popular
People sent their laundry to laundromats
Farm Electricity
Only 3% had electricity
To Expensive
1930’s Government held with the REA
House Appliances
Washing Machines
Refrigerators
Vacuums
Iorns
Dishwashers
Eased workload
Efficiency
Entertainment
TVs
Radios
Broadcasted various programs
Telephones used more often
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